"The hand that holds the money cracks the…" — James M. Cain
"The hand that holds the money cracks the whip."
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23 Quotes by James M. Cain
James M. Cain has 23 quotes on this site.
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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental…
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Yes, I have actually mined coal, and distilled liquor, as well as seen a girl in a pink dress, and…
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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When it’s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If it’s too easy you have…
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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
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If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the…
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Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
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A guitar has moonlight in it.
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually…
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O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on…
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They threw me off the haytruck about noon.
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I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
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I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone -…
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
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It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.
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I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.
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The community which does not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no…
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Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my…
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If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.
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Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell…
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